"How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath……" — Dorianne Laux

How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I… - Dorianne Laux

"How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail."

— Dorianne Laux

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